Robert Luby, MD, IFMCP

Concurrent Speaker

Steering Committee

IFM Director of Medical Education, Initiatives

Prior to joining IFM in 2015, Dr. Robert Luby spent 26 years as a board-certified family physician serving patients in community health centers, successfully applying the functional medicine model in marginalized communities and under-resourced settings. During the immediate 16 years prior to joining IFM, he served as the director of curriculum and faculty training in an academic family medicine residency program. Past teaching affiliations include Harvard, UMass, Tufts, Boston U, and the University of Vermont medical schools. Dr. Luby holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Dartmouth, and received his MD degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was board certified in holistic medicine in 2002, and in 2013 joined the first class of IFM Certified Practitioners.

Outside of IFM, Robert might be found contemplating the nature of philosophy, the philosophy of poetry, or the poetry of nature.